Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-12 (Sunday)

On 1/13/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

One thing I forgot to mention for Arthur on Saturday is that I watched "Demolition Man" - it's amazing how many people are in this film as virtual babies!... including Denis Leary!! This is one of my fave 1990s dystopian action flicks!  :)
Feeling a little better yesterday, I actually ran an errand, and then did actual work stuff. I watched:
Wild Card football - I watched all 3 games yesterday.
    In the morning game, at the beginning, it seemed like Denver was going to make a game of it - they were trying every trick in the book to try to. But, as expected, it quickly got away from them and Buffalo ended up dominating, winning easily.
    The afternoon game was Green Bay vs. Phili, which Green Bay managed to keep somewhat close throughout most of the game, despite playing pretty awfully. (Further buttressing my belief that Phili is overrated!) But, in the end, Phili did what they needed to to win.
    The best game of the Wild Card set was last night's game, Washington vs. Tampa Bay, which was close pretty much throughout the whole game. Unfortunately, Washington won it in a less second field goal, which "doinked" in off the upright (seemingly the fifth or sixth time that has happened late this season).
    Just Rams vs. Vikings left for tonight.
I was still pretty tired so last night I just decided to put on the Fox lineup after football, to sample some shows:
Doc - Pilot. This was OK. Canuck actress Molly Parker plays a brilliant doctor and chief of internal medicine with horrible bedside manner - this is obviously filmed in Toronto, as Rebecca Liddiard plays a patient abused by Parker's horrible bedside manner. (The chief of staff's new wife(?) is also played by Sarah Allen.)
    But Parker's Doc has a car crash (texting while driving!!), resulting in a head injury. After brain surgery, she doesn't remember the preceding 8 years. Which means she doesn't know that she's divorced from the guy who is now the chief of staff(?), that her daughter is now a teenager, that her young son died 7 years before, nor that she's carrying on an affair with a much younger underling (Jon Ecker).
    Anyway, it looks like this is going to devolve into a slog as she tries to get her life and career back, presumably with a new attitude. IOW, while this wasn't terrible, I doubt I'm going to go out of my way to watch it again.
Animal Control - What I gather was ep. #3.2. What made this more enjoyable than usual was that Lucy Punch was the guest star. Aside from that this show is OK - it has some amusing bits, and characters, but also gets tedious in places. And McHale is playing the usual "Joel McHale" character here, so it's not breaking new ground.
Going Dutch - This one I was actively disappointed by: instead of just letting Denis Leary be the "Denis Leary-esque" crotchety commander of a lax base in the Netherlands, they screw this up by adding the fact that his daughter is one of the officers immediately under him - if I want to watch that kind of show, I'll watch "Shifting Gears"! I don't want this show messed up by estranged father-daughter dynamics!
    Anim will love this as Catherine Tate has a significant role as a prostitute(?) who befriends Leary (is it my imagination or do all Leary series seem to push prostitution?!) - Tate is *much* more subdued here than she was on "Doctor Who"; Joe Morton also appears as the superior officer determined to ruin Leary's career.
What did you watch?